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Jamie Bartlett

Jamie Bartlett is a British author and journalist focused on technology, online extremism, digital culture, and the social effects of the internet. He is best known for The Dark Net, Radicals, and The People vs Tech, works that brought broad public attention to fringe online communities, political polarization, and the power of digital platforms.

Biografia e Jornada do Autor

Jamie Bartlett built his career from an educational path that was less conventionally literary than his later reputation might suggest. He has spoken about coming from a comprehensive-school background, winning a scholarship for graduate study at Oxford, and later holding master’s degrees from both the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics. His decisive early turning point came through the think tank Demos, where he founded the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media in 2010 and led it for a decade, helping define a field that connected online behavior, politics, extremism, and emerging technologies. ((https://rebelbook.club/podcast/the-books-that-made-jamie-bartlett?utm_source=openai))

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Digital life is real life too, and we need to look squarely at its shocking and testing features
-The moral dark side of reporting on the dark net
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Integrated into everything, everywhere, their technology will blanket the world
-Here’s the real danger that Facebook, Google and the other tech monopolies pose to our society
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But good citizenship – and subsequently good politics – requires thinking, not checking
-What is the device in your pocket doing to your mind?
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There are no exact rules about how to be a good digital citizen, except to make careful decisions about your online behaviour
-You’ll lose your mind if you’re a slave to your screen
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But what worries me most is not that facial recognition technologies won’t work – but the opposite
-The Met Police's sinister facial recognition trial should worry us all
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At the moment, sadly, most of them still live in another era
-The Facebook scandal exposes our politicians' technical illiteracy
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The Net magnifies this effect, since it’s now far easier to find anything you already believe, and surround yourself with it 24/7
-Radicals by Jamie Bartlett
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The problem with Facebook isn’t malevolence, but something worse: utopianism
-We all fell for Facebook’s utopianism, but the mask is at last being torn away

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"Bartlett combines an insider's expertise with a neophyte's tale of discovery"

The Washington Post

"Bartlett anatomises the usual bogeymen and demonstrates that they're real"

The Spectator

"Bartlett is an informal yet informed guide"

Times Literary Supplement

"Bartlett skilfully presents OneCoin's turbulent history like a thriller"

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"Bartlett doesn't just tell us about the dark net; he also rips through the cloak of anonymity to let us meet some of its denizens"

Booklist

"Jamie Bartlett is an expert guide . . . he shines an invaluable light on a world that remains determinedly opaque"

Ian Burrell

"Bartlett effectively manages to condense the political challenges of technology into his six-pillar framework"

LSE Business Review

"Bartlett is an able guide on a journey through the margins of the web"

The Independent

"A confident and well-informed guide . . . By meeting the people behind the online activity, Bartlett humanises it"

New Scientist

"Jamie Bartlett races through this compelling tale of corruption, ambition and intrigue"

Irish Independent

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